| | Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | At the same time, concern about the guarantees to be enjoyed by all persons deprived of their liberty was concretized in 1988 in the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment (see annex I). |
 | | However, at the request of the State concerned, the Group may exceptionally agree to grant an additional period of time, particularly when, for lack of sufficient resources, the Government's administrative machinery is not yet in a position to respond speedily to the many requests it may receive. |
 | | The Group has already adopted various such "deliberations", specifically on the questions of house arrest and deprivation of freedom for purposes of rehabilitation through labour; by means of these "deliberations" it defines the criteria on the basis of which deprivation of freedom linked with such situations may become arbitrary. |
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